February 09, 2021

2015 Chrysler: SD card for music

I just figured this out from several sources on the net, and my own tests:

A 2015 Chrysler with Uconnect (that has a USB and SD card slot for media) can handle larger than 32 GB SD cards, if they’re formatted to FAT32.

What worked for me:

  • This 64 GB flash drive
  • Formatted to FAT32 via this app (because Win 10’s native formatter won’t allow anything above 32 GB to be formatted to FAT32)
  • and loaded with 9,707 MP3s (approx. 47 GB) (word is you shouldn’t have more than a few levels of folders; I just put everything in the root folder, because I intend to shuffle them all anyway)

works, although as expected:

  • it takes a bit for it to index (a few minutes)
  • Shuffle isn’t available until it indexes
  • There’s a second or so delay when Nexting to another file, although it may have done this for smaller cards too.